By Dan Calabrese —— Bio and Archives--June 29, 2017
As enthusiastic as we are about the prospect of Sarah Palin sticking it to the New York Times in a defamation suit, it's typically very difficult for a public figure to win such a case against a media outlet. The law is written to give broad protections to the media, and requires the plaintiff to show not only that the statement in question was defamatory, but that the media outlet knew it was defamatory and made it anyway out of malice.
That's usually a very difficult thing to prove. So you'd think that other liberal journalists who are part of the east coast establishment would be dismissive of Gov. Palin's chances. But in the case of liberal Washington Post columnist Erik Wemple, you'd be wrong:The Comment section of online publications is the new front in the ongoing Cancel Culture Battle.
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